At the passes, the road is cleaned from stones, debris after rain and snow, and covered with anti-slip inert materials, the press service of the Ministry of Transport of the Kyrgyz Republic reports.
So, according to her, 89-90 km near the tunnel, from 123 to 138 km near the southern portal of the tunnel, from 206 to 209 km on the Ala-Bel pass of the Bishkek-Osh highway in order to ensure the passage of vehicles along the Bishkek-Osh highway was carried out cleaning the road and backfilling the roadway with anti-slip inert materials, as well as cleaning the road from stones, debris after rain and snow. Used 140 tons of salt and sand, involved 10 workers.
At 209-282 km from the Ala-Bel pass to the entrance to the Toktogul settlement, the road was also cleaned and the roadway was filled with salt, 20 tons of salt and 50 tons of sand were spent for these purposes.
The Ministry of Transport of the Kyrgyz Republic convincingly asks drivers of all categories to timely change summer tires to winter ones, equip vehicles with snow chains, be vigilant when moving through the passes, and maintain a distance of 500 meters between vehicles.
It is also necessary to show solidarity in the event of a congestion of cars and not to drive into the oncoming lane, so as not to form congestion and congestion of cars.
Currently, the road workers are carrying out work to create certain conditions for the passage of the crossings by vehicles.
“In particular, the road services of the Ministry of Transport on the cross-sections of the Bishkek-Osh motorways (at the Toe-Ashuu, Ala-Bel and Kok-Bel pass in the Suusamyr valley), Talas-Taraz-Suusamyr (Otmok pass), Bishkek-Naryn-Torugart and others in spite of the accompanying blizzards and blizzards, work is underway to clean the roadway from the snow run-off and ice by adding anti-slip materials, ”the message says.
Source: Kyrgyz National News Agency